Central Asia and the Caucasus

Arbakhan Magomedov. OIL AND RUSSIA’S POLITICAL REGIME AT STAGES IN POST-COMMUNIST DEVELOPMENT: CONTINUITY OF RENT SEEKING WITHIN THE RAW-MATERIAL PARADIGM

Abdolreza Farajirad, Asaad Khezerzade. RUSSIA’S FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD THE CAUCASUS UNDER VLADIMIR PUTIN

Murat Laumulin. U.S. CENTRAL ASIAN POLICY UNDER PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA

David Babayan. SOME OF CHINA’S GEOPOLITICAL VECTORS IN CENTRAL ASIA

Vladimir Paramonov, Alexey Strokov, Oleg Stolpovskiy. CHINA IN CENTRAL ASIA

Vladimir Karyakin. U.S. MIDDLE EASTERN POLICY: NEW APPROACHES AND OLD PROBLEMS

Maya Manchkhashvili. TURKEY AND SECURITY IN THE SOUTHERN CAUCASUS: THE CAUCASUS STABILITY AND COOPERATION PLATFORM

Eric Freedman, Richard Shafer, Slavka Antonova. TWO DECADES OF REPRESSION: THE PERSISTENCE OF AUTHORITARIAN CONTROLS ON THE MASS MEDIA IN CENTRAL ASIA

Navbahor Imamova, Richard Schaefer, Richard Shafer, Eric Freedman. CONTROVERSY ON THE AIRWAVES: PUBLIC DIPLOMACY, PORTRAYING AMERICA, AND PUBLIC OUTREACH THROUGH THE VOICE OF AMERICA UZBEK SERVICE

Ashot Alexanyan. POST-SOVIET SOCIAL PARTNERSHIP: THE POLITICAL AND CIVILIARCHIC DIMENSIONS OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

The Special Feature section in the next issue will discuss:

• Central Eurasia: Politics Today
• Central Eurasia: Religion in the Sociopolitical Context
• Energy Policy and Energy Projects in Central Eurasia